I have recently been doing a lot of Scrum process at work. Enough to make me feel entitled to critique it1. I figure that so long as we’re being assessed on our implementation of the Scrum process, I should be able to assess Scrum on its implementation of a software process. Note that I have already discussed the term “user story”. So I’m going to try something different today, and actually discuss salient conceptual points. Eventually.
This week I started eight threads on the Qt dev mailing list, and it’s not because I like writing essays. This blog post is because I like writing essays. I just have a lot to talk about, and in classic meta-cognition style I’d like to talk a lot about why I’m talking a lot.
I got a new game recently. It inspired me to rant about porting console games to PC. I used to think that it should happen more often, but I’m no longer convinced that game developers are competent enough to turn even a good console game into a quality PC port.
I’m a big fan of self-improvement, and one aspect of that is to analyze re-evaluate your routines. If there’s a task or situation you encounter every single day, the cumulative benefits of doing it better is hard to overestimate. So one thing I have been experimenting with for a while is how to sit at my desk.